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Yoshida Shōin

1830 - 1859

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Yoshida Shōin (吉田松陰, born Sugi Toranosuke (杉 寅之助); September 20, 1830 – November 21, 1859), commonly named Torajirō (寅次郎), was one of Japan's most distinguished intellectuals in the late years of the Tokugawa shogunate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshida Shōin has received more than 205,492 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoshida Shōin is the 7,892nd most popular politician (down from 7,448th in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from Japan (down from 629th in 2019) and the 244th most popular Japanese Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

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  • 54.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yoshida Shōin ranks 7,892 out of 15,577. Before him are Vyacheslav Kebich, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Werner Lorenz, Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, William II, Elector of Hesse, and Artabanus II of Parthia. After him are Henry Morgenthau Sr., Ferdinand Kettler, Ayub Khan, Alghu, Anna of Sweden, and Marcus Caelius Rufus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Yoshida Shōin ranks 34. Before him are Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Karl Goldmark, Theodor Leschetizky, Alexei Savrasov, Carmine Crocco, and François-Marie Raoult. After him are Christina Rossetti, Kamehameha V, Albert Günther, Aga Khan II, Luigi Cremona, and Guido Gezelle. Among people deceased in 1859, Yoshida Shōin ranks 29. Before him are Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, John Austin, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Robert Stephenson, and Louis Poinsot. After him are Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, Princess Anna of Saxony, Zygmunt Krasiński, Tatya Tope, Sergey Aksakov, and Carl Adolph Agardh.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshida Shōin ranks 630 out of 6,048. Before him are Kenji Tochio (1941), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Chōjun Miyagi (1888), and Kunihiko Kodaira (1915). After him are Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Isamu Chō (1895), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), and Masayuki Uemura (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Yoshida Shōin ranks 244. Before him are Takeo Miki (1907), Gotō Shinpei (1857), Jiro Taniguchi (1947), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), and Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556). After him are Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Sen Katayama (1859), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Hosokawa Gracia (1563), and Emperor Sanjō (976).

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